More than a dozen students at Asotin High School were sent home Monday after refusing to comply with the state’s current mask mandate for all students who attend in-person classes.
According to the Lewiston Tribune, Asotin-Anatone Superintendent Dale Bonfield said the students arrived at school with no masks and when they were offered masks, the students refused to wear them. They were subsequently sent home with an unexcused absence.
Bonfield said the protest was peaceful, but was also the most significant incident of noncompliance with the mask mandate. Students, teachers and staff at Washington schools have been required to wear masks indoors since returning to in-person learning last year after an order from Governor Jay Inslee.
Talks have begun to lift the mask mandate in Washington schools, but so far the requirement remains in place. (Lewiston Tribune)
